Slides to support a presentation on visual thinking across the curriculum at the Building Learning Communities Conference. Boston, MA, July 2013. Over 80% of our brains are used interpreting visuals. It seems a waste not to take advantage this powerful channel into the minds of our students. What sorts of ways can a single image be used to tell stories and explore complex ideas in Math, Science, Language Arts or Languages classrooms? What could we do with a series of pictures? How can we do this beyond the time and space of the classroom walls and have our students generate a bank of powerful visuals to inspire future students to create even more powerful learning imagery? In this hands on session participants will mash up their ideas with powerful images, painlessly share them with the group and spend the lion’s share of our time together thinking deeply and discussing our shared vision for what real learning looks like in our classrooms. We’ll touch on ideas of ethical and responsible use of technology, creative commons and some thoughts about visual design. Bring your camera enabled mobile device. We’re gonna use it. And show you how to take better pictures in the process.

1. cclicensed(BY)flickrphotobytalktogabriel:
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Darren Kuropatwa
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Building Learning Communities
Boston, MA July 2013

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4. A Quick Create: Opposites
"Add a Caption to a Photo that Makes
it Say the Opposite of What it Looks
Like it Means"
Share Your Create
See Your Create
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5. ready tolearn?
CC licensed photo by spaghettipie:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodevo/8299614686

6. Get a QR-Code Reader
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7. ready tolearn?
CC licensed photo by spaghettipie:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodevo/8299614686

8. add contact
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9. Telling
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10. .com
click

12. Parabolas (etc.)
https://vimeo.com/8186700

13. Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing

14. Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing

15. the girl is sad

16. the girl is sad
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by white ribbons:
http://flickr.com/photos/white_ribbons/5701965468/

17. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by white ribbons:
http://flickr.com/photos/white_ribbons/5701965468/

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21. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by ĐāżŦ {mostly absent}:
http://flickr.com/photos/darrentunnicliff/4469318003/
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22. 5 picture
stories

23. “Thank you for everything we had.”

24. dearphotograph.com

25. time passing ...

26. time passing ...

28. A
tree is made of air
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by dkuropatwa:
http://flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/2923120259/
most of a trees’ mass is
from the carbon it breathes

30. For sale: Baby shoes.
Never worn.
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by akahodag:
http://flickr.com/photos/akahodag/2291518919/

31. Six Word Stories
Flickr: Six Word Story
www.smithmag.net
Six Word Story Every Day
@sixwordstories
Ben Grey - 6 Word Story Project
6cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Pierre Metivier:
http://flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/739173692/

32. Untitled; used with permission
http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmclauchlan/6982580489

33. Untitled; used with permission
http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmclauchlan/6982580953

35. Sisters are playdates that last forever.

38. cclicensed(BY)flickrphotobyicpjones:
http://flickr.com/photos/icpjones/6025551653/

40. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by linniekin:
http://flickr.com/photos/linniekin/3995299235/

41. With every mistake we
must surely be learning ...
the beatles
In fact, every mistak you
make grows synapses in
your brain.
carol dweck
… or an opportunity?
image source: http://mathmistakes.org/?p=1055
a mistake

45. 5 picture
stories

46. Full Circle

47. Fair, August 2005
The day it all started...

48. savonne 011 / Julia / CC BY-NC-ND

51. Fair, August 2006
1 year and 1 day later. Same
fair, same ride, same smile...
Same kid?... you tell me.

56. What’s the title
of this story?

57. First Kiss
Hope you like it ...
it happened quicky ...
but the moment was kept.

58. Bag Lady

64. Guess
this book

70. Man Nomming on Burger / Mr.T in DC / CC BY-ND
The Full
Meal Deal

71. DevelopingYour
Photographic Eye

73. rule of thirds

86. fillthe frame

90. framing

94. lines

98. forcedp e r s p e c t i v e

99. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by rianpie:
http://flickr.com/photos/rianpie/4385969411/

100. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by Phil Dragash:
http://flickr.com/photos/philman/3947185102/

101. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by aforgrave:
http://flickr.com/photos/aforgrave/7561860344/

102. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by Devin Moore Photography:
http://flickr.com/photos/devinmoar_/5788062798/

103. test
yourself

106. cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo by benjaminasmith:
http://flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/2887513136/

108. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by andrewyang:
http://flickr.com/photos/andrewyang/181350752/

112. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by lighthack:
http://flickr.com/photos/lighthack/4423938259/

115. Photographic Eye Credits
DSP 55: Mech Eye 2007-07-11 by flickr user vernhart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vernhart/784617854/
Goldener Bilderrahmen - gold picture frame by flickr user eriwst
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eriwst/2303608353/
P365 Day 184 - Converging Lines by flickr user Paolo G
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolo_g2005/3685662178/
Sail Boat by flickr user MarkKelley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markkelley/157662318/
Rule of Thirds? By flickr user G a r r y
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garry61/3697553554/
Rule of thirds by flickr user fd
http://www.flickr.com/photos/john/144190539/
WheatView by flickr user herrolm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herrolm/3628078741/
stone pier rule of thirds by flickr user petervanallen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petervanallen/3220860090/
Jake by flickr user Shea
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9457586@N06/1035068624/
Lines by flickr user Martin Deutsch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teflon/133554502/
Off Line by flickr user h.koppdelaney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/2559449536/
The curve in the middle … by flickr user 1Happysnapper
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/3547128317/
Light Lines by flickr user BottleLeaf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2684002442/
Rocks lead the eye by flickr user digitalsadhu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalsadhu/2408491675/
I’m waiting for my man by flickr user onkel_wart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkel_wart/2038421770/
Framed! by flickr user freebird4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freebird4/143459063/
you’ve been framed by flickr userYersinia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yersinia/2439823650/
Framed golden tiger by flickr user Tambako the Jaguar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/2528329481/
perspective by flickr user littlenelly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlenelly/1428439851/
Buffy Baird by flickr user mikebaird
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/1388416458/
10photo05 by flickr user PhotopediaPhotos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12150723@N06/1607914728/
at the end of the day by flickr user g.originals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_originals/421093184/
frame filling leaf by flickr user Leo Reynolds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/55258454/
fill the frame by flickr user l e a h | r a c h e l l e
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahrachelle/1469949925/

116. wall79books@photos.flickr.com
Take a picture of the shapes & sizes you see in the
world around you right now. Maybe take a walk to
find them.Then email your picture to:
Through the Lens by flickr user davidz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidz/822970543/

117. Take a picture of the shapes & sizes you see in the
world around you right now. Maybe take a walk to
find them.Then email your picture to Darren’s Flickr:
Through the Lens by flickr user davidz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidz/822970543/

118. more than just pictures
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo by spcbrass:
http://flickr.com/photos/spcbrass/4543486633/

119. Fibonacc
Tree

122. Just Taste thePossibilities
Lick / Dan Barak / CC BY-NC-ND

123. Give, take 'n share by flickr user Funchye
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funch/3264112407/

125. thanks

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